Mexican Revolution

Question 1

1500

Answer 1

City of Tenochtitlán is the biggest city in the world

Question 2

1521

Answer 2

Hernán Cortés conquista la ciudad de Tenochtitlán

Question 3

1810

Answer 3

Miguel Hidalgo did the grito for independence from Spain

Question 4

1821

Answer 4

Mexico won independence from Spain

Question 5

1848

Answer 5

US gets half of Mexico’s land after war

Question 6

1862

Answer 6

On 5 de Mayo Mexico kicked out the French

Question 7

1910

Answer 7

Revolution against Díaz began

Question 8

Tenochtitlán

Answer 8

capital city of the Aztec empire

Question 9

Aztecs/ Mexica

Answer 9

Successful indigenous empire in Mexico

Question 10

colonialism

Answer 10

When one country controls another

Question 11

Hernán Cortes

Answer 11

Spanish conquistador who destroyed Tenochtitlán in 1521

Question 12

Nueva España

Answer 12

Name for Mexico when it was controlled by Spain

Question 13

Miguel Hidalgo

Answer 13

Priest who called for independence with his “grito” in 1810

Question 14

Benito Juárez

Answer 14

First indigenous president of Mexico

Question 15

Porfirio Díaz

Answer 15

Mexican dictator for 33 years

Question 16

Francisco Madero

Answer 16

elected in the first free election after the Díaz dictatorship

Question 17

Victoriano Huerta

Answer 17

killed Madero and became president for one year

Question 18

Emiliano Zapata

Answer 18

main leader of revolutionaries in the South

Question 19

Dolores Jimenez y Muro

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repeatedly imprisoned for protesting for women’s and workers’ rights

Question 20

Pancho Villa

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main leader of the revolutionaries in the North

Question 21

Hermila Galindo

Answer 21

Spoke at Feminist Congress about women’s rights to vote, run for office, birth control, education

Question 22

Porfirio Díaz

Answer 22

The time when Díaz was a dictator for 33 years

Question 23

Constitution of 1917

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Included free public education, land reform, and minimum wage

Question 24

land reform

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giving land back to the poor and indigenous who originally owned it

Question 25

nationalization of oil

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When the oil/ gas industry is controlled by the government to use the money for its people

Question 26

conservative

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believed in stability and control to bring money and wealth

Question 27

stability

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when a country is under control and calm

Question 28

reformer

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believed Mexico needed honest politicians to create better laws and programs

Question 29

revolutionary

Answer 29

believed campesinos and workers needed to organize, protest, and strike for land and liberty.